Chastened Quotes

#1. In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.

Jack Abramoff

#2. Here was the old Professor Emerson, simmering beneath Gabriel's chastened exterior.

Sylvain Reynard

#3. The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice.

Fannie Barrier Williams

#4. The night is made for tenderness,
so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,
and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#5. Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

Walter Scott

#6. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.

Sophocles

#7. A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Anthony Trollope

#8. But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. An older generation, chastened by one depression, is afraid to be optimistic; and a younger generation, accustomed to security, is inexperienced at being pessimistic.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#10. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

Jack Abramoff

#11. But this time it was her other self I saw, not the dark fairy of want but a middle-aged woman, like the woman I am now, plain, chastened, mortal. The

Jan Ellison

#12. Fingerbone was never an impressive town. It was chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.

Alfred De Musset

#14. Unless wealth was chastened by culture or regulated by government, it was at worst predatory, at best boring.

Edmund Morris

#15. He'd tried a life separated from God, and it was no way to live. He'd rather be a son who was chastened than a stranger who was ignored.

Regina Jennings

#16. Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.

Julian Jaynes

#17. A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

Johan Huizinga

#18. The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

Frank Carlucci

#19. Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

Thomas Paine

#20. The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.

Ellen Langer

#21. It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan